Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 2086S0127X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 02
2086S0127X Trauma Surgery Physician
2086S0127X is the taxonomy code for Trauma Surgery, a specialization of Surgery, in the NUCC group “Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians”. It is a code for individual providers — the kind used on a Type 1 NPI. Medicare maps it to specialty 02, Physician/General Surgery, under which 27,817 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 2086S0127X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 02 Physician/General Surgery
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
Trauma surgery is a recognized subspecialty of general surgery. Trauma surgeons are physicians who have completed a five-year general surgery residency and usually continue with a one to two year fellowship in trauma and/or surgical critical care, typically leading to additional board certification in surgical critical care. There is no trauma surgery board certification at this point. To obtain board certification in surgical critical care, a fellowship in surgical critical care or anesthesiology critical care must be completed during or after general surgery residency.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 2086S0127X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 232 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Surgery 208600000X
- Specialization: Trauma Surgery 2086S0127X
Choose 2086S0127X over the general Surgery code (208600000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in trauma surgery; the general code covers the classification as a whole. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
CMS's taxonomy crosswalk links 2086S0127X to Medicare specialty 02 (Physician/General Surgery). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 27,817 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 24 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 204E00000X Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (D.M.D.); 204F00000X Transplant Surgery Physician; 207T00000X Neurological Surgery Physician; 207X00000X Orthopaedic Surgery Physician; 207XP3100X Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery Physician; 207XS0106X Orthopaedic Hand Surgery Physician; 207XS0114X Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Physician; 207XS0117X Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Physician; and 16 more.
Related codes
| Code | Surgery — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 2086S0105X | Surgery of the Hand |
| 2086S0102X | Surgical Critical Care |
| 2086X0206X | Surgical Oncology |
| 2086S0129X | Vascular Surgery |
The nearest 4 of 9 other codes under Surgery; all are on the group page.
History of 2086S0127X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 2086S0127X is from 2008 (definition added, source added).
- 2008-01-01 — definition added, source added
Similar codes in other groups
If 2086S0127X is not quite right, these codes in other groups share a word with it — often the same field practised by a different kind of provider:
- 1223S0112X Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) (Dental Providers)
- 163WS0121X Plastic Surgery Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 213ES0103X Foot & Ankle Surgery Podiatrist (Podiatric Medicine & Surgery Service Providers)
- 213ES0131X Foot Surgery Podiatrist (Podiatric Medicine & Surgery Service Providers)
- 261QS0132X Ophthalmologic Surgery Clinic/Center (Ambulatory Health Care Facilities)
- 261QS0112X Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic/Center (Ambulatory Health Care Facilities)
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Using 2086S0127X
The code goes in the taxonomy field of the NPI application in NPPES, and on claims where a payer asks for it — box 24J (shaded) or 33b on the CMS-1500 with the ZZ qualifier, or the PRV segment of an 837 electronic claim. Payers match it against the taxonomy on the NPI record and, for Medicare, against the specialty on the enrollment, so all three should agree. To see which code a provider uses, search their NPI in the lookup.
Sources: NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 26.1 (CSV); CMS Medicare Provider and Supplier Taxonomy Crosswalk, August 2026; CMS Medicare Fee-For-Service Public Provider Enrollment, extract of 2026-09-29. Checked 2026-10-24. Methodology.